Vampire Draws

Phew.

Today is behind us.

I have to admit, I was a bit anxious about today--

Kean's first day getting blood draws from his arm

(now that his port is gone).

 We numbed up both arms (since Down's kids

are notoriously hard to get blood ) and get this-

it couldn't have gone any better.

 We were surrounded by nurses we know really

well (after 3 1/2 years) and they had found a fabulous

big picture book about one of his favorites: "Cars"-

so we had the bases covered.

 Miraculously, they got a good vein, got blood

and had his samples taken-- in and out in about a minute or two.

 My dear friend Pam Brown went with us

to help out, hold the boy...

 and keep us both company.

 We had a great visit with our favorite doctor, Dr. Meeker.

And he was quite excited to show us Kean's results-- the

entire computer screen only had one line of yellow on it.

That means, all his counts are in the normal range- except for one.

He may be barely in the normal range-- but hey, we will gladly take it.

He's exactly where we want him to be- making progress!

Oh, and no fever tonight.  

Let's hope last night's fever was a fluke.